#WeAreBrave
SPEAK OUT. SPEAK LOUD. SPEAK TOGETHER.
Welcome to a safe, carefully moderated world of testimonials from survivors of sexual assault and rape. Join our community by sharing your story or showing your support. This platform is meant to heal and not re-traumatize. Please remember to practice self-care if reading these stories is triggering to you.
The #WeAreBrave Story Platform has made BraveMissWorld.com the #1 Google search result worldwide for survivors seeking to share their stories. Yet it was born by accident. When Miss World Linor Abargil decided to step forward and speak publicly about her rape in 2008, she launched the website LinorSpeaksOut. Her mailbox was quickly flooded with emails from survivors wanting to share their stories with someone who would believe them and offer words of support. Linor met with many of the women and men who wrote to her, and included their stories in her film.
When the documentary Brave Miss World was completed and launched in 2014, LinorSpeaksOut was merged into BraveMissWorld.com, which became the online hub for survivors wanting to share their stories. With generous grants from The Artemis Rising Foundation, The Fledgling Fund, The Francis Family Foundation, and The Roy A. Hunt Foundation among others, the filmmakers and a small team of volunteers have curated this one-of-a-kind collection of over 2,500 testimonials, each carefully moderated to screen out any remarks that are disrespectful of survivors. We are committed to making sure that everyone submitting and reading stories on our site feels safe.
Our goal is to change the conversation around assault and rape. Women’s voices are finally being heard. Until now, we have not demanded that the culture be changed. We are saying no to the deafening silence that has surrounded rape and assault. We encourage members of our community to share their stories, because we believe that healing begins with speaking out and receiving support. Each story on our site receives a supportive comment from a trained advocate, as well as comments from our #WeAreBrave community. Every story is incredibly different and unique, but they all share the tremendous strength and resilience of survivors.
We know our platform works, because of the feedback from those using our site whose lives have changed in significant ways as a result of watching the film and/or sharing their story with others. Every day, new viewers and visitors discover and explore #WeAreBrave and many write to thank us for creating and maintaining this important space. For all those sharing their unique personal experiences and brave accounts of the lasting emotional impact of rape and assault, you are not alone.
Our work needs you. Your continuing support has enabled us to upgrade this site and add the ability to submit audio and visual testimonials. Please DONATE to help us make sure this resource continues to remain available to all those who need it. All donations are 100% tax deductible through our 501c3 fiscal sponsor, Los Angeles Filmforum.
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4th grade
לדבר, להלחם, לנצח
Raped After School
My Best Friend’s Boyfriend
Raped
A respectable collegue
Is It Really Rape?
Childhood Trauma and Rape
J’avais 13 ans
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Ended in Rape
Catching Up With Me
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Obsessed Abusive Ex
Once, Twice, Three Times A Victim
The Cliche
Rape
My Rape
Bringing the Stories to Light
Mine Was Different
The Beach is Not Safe
Rape is Real
I Blamed Myself
Spoke out and was blamed
Childhood rape
Sexual Assault
Just Hanging Out
Believe it or Not, It happened to...
Christianity teaches men to treat women like...
Bad Date
Bringing the Stories to Light
Seis Años
אוףףףף
Summer 2019
I’m Not Sure
I Pretend Like I Don’t Remember…But I...
Rape at Bogota, Colombia
Alcohol Convinced Me It Was My Fault,...
Rape and the Aftermath
Army
My Modeling Experience
I Thought I was Safe
Sexually Assaulted Or Not?
Breaking Trust
Raped in the Air Force
Can’t Even Take My Medicine
Football Player
Finally Sharing
A Private College; A Private Rape
raped by my own brother
Supposed To Be There
I Wanted to See the Aquarium
I Choose Hope

No Title Will Stop How I Feel
Erase and Rewind
Holding My Feelings In
10 Years!
We go to the same church
Weak
Raped by my boyfriend
My boss
Staying Strong
Teenage Victim
Nightmare
College Student
Constant fear
Was It Really Rape?
3 Generations
The Boys Club Continues
Black Out
Survivor of Rape
School Rape
Supe que fue un abuso cuando ya...
There Is Hope For Us
Good Guy
Drugged
They Laughed
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Sexual Assault
What I Now Feel, Because of Him
#IStandWithHer
He Was My Boyfriend
Rape & Sexual Assault
Holding My Feelings In
rape
Speaking Up for Women
A Letter To My Abusive Brother
I was only 11
Raped At 15
Denial
My Best Friend
3 Generations
I just wanted to give him a...
Only 12
7 Months
I Am Still Standing
My Friend
Newly Living Neighbour
Brock and Will
He’s Still Out There
In Five Years
Rape
Survivor, Still Struggling
The Statistics that Changed Me
The Boys Club Continues
Unwanted Flashbacks
Catching Up With Me
Thank You
Suffered and Survived
הטרידו אותי
High School Orientation
My Brave Daughter
My Ex-husband
Never thought I could be a victim
I was a kid, you were my...
Twice is too much
Lost In Time
Thank You
Hope after repeated rape
I was raped for 3 years
When Will This Nightmare End
In Denial of My Rape
So Called Friends
The Woods Don’t Speak
Paris Nightmare
Simple games was a way to hide...
The Aftermath
This is my story
Dating For 10 Months When…
NYD
What Happened?
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
Too naïve
So Long Ago But Still With Me
Multiple Times
Still Rape
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Ketamine Rape
The reason for my tattoo
My rape story
I was raped
my story
Weathering The Storm
I still see him on campus
Child Rape
My Army Fiance
Raped
Miss
I Was Manipulated
ללינור היקרה
De Los 6 a Los 12
My Own Sister
Because of You
School Bathroom
#IStandWithHer
I Said No
He was supposed to be a friend
Freshman Year
My Mom
I was raped and didn’t know
Life of Trauma
Raped & Kidnapped By An Ex
Never Thought It Would Happen to Me
Not A Trustworthy Man
Ms.
My Family My Love
Help
Broken Hearted
Night of Psychedelic Horror
Army
After I Was Raped
Workplace Sexual Harassment
Sexual Coercion
Blamed myself …
The Night That Changed My World
Male dancer
I Didn’t Know
No Stranger
Drugged
My fiancé is my rapist but I...
10 years later I realised
Why Me?
Memories Are Back
Child Rape
Enough Is Enough
Help
Night Out
Tormented
Someone I Thought I Could Trust
Are you sure?
Ya perdoné pero nunca olvido
הסיפור שלי…
The First Time
Rape
Not like the rape you always hear...
Family Rape
Locked Up
Date Rape
גבר אלים וחולני
Teatime
End of Innocence
Just Words
Too much trauma
From Heaven to Hell
כמוני כמוך
Drunk and taken advantage of
Broken Girl
היי לינור
The Friendship I Always Never Wanted
In 1978
My biggest mistake
Christmas Horror
Everyone Else Likes You, Too
הטראומה הכי קשה בחיי
Tinder Rape
Undertones Throughout My Life
Raped by my step father
More Witness than I Care to Live...
Stranger, Friend, Lawyer, and Youth Leader
Mi Historia
I was raped for 5 years when...
Sexual Assault
This Is Me, my fight song
Stolen Innocence
I know when I see a rapist...
You Were Supposed to Be My Protector
Rape
Home invasion, wife saved daughter
Por Fin Puedo Decirlo
Was Once a Best Friend
Anal Rape
I Thought He Was My Friend
But what really happened?
My Step Brother
Myself
My Mother’s Life Partner Sexually Harrased Me...
“Date” gone wrong?
Black and Blue
Touched
Why me?
Why Me?
Feelings After I was Raped 20 plus...
Stolen innocence
Sexual Abuse
Is It Rape When It’s Your Husband??
Someone so close to me
My message to all
Exploitation Was My Lifestyle
Multiple Times
Raped by my Stepfather
Too drunk to respond
Mi Esposa
Happy Survivor
Unethical or illegal?
Small Town, Popular Boyfriend
Enough Is Enough
Sexual Abuse and Rape
Effort To Survive
My story growing up with a secret
I Remember Being Happy
Grandpa
I was 14
Holding It In
My Story
Exposing Rapists – A Poem
Being Raped
Rape
I Thought I Was Safe
En Enero de 2010
So drunk I can’t remember
לא יוצאים מזה…
I Barely Knew Them
Finally telling my story.
Betrayed By My Own Mind
Feeling lonely and isolated
Lifetime of Abuse
Ripples
Incapacitated Still
Time Heals
the scary shadows
Rape??
Being Raped
Travelling
No More Silence
My First Boyfriend
Domestic Abuse
I Shouldn’t Have Drank
Trying To Be Better
It’s still happening
My/our German “Weinstein” Case
16 times
Assault
Despedida
Is Healing Possible?
I Thought I Knew Hi
I Was Only 7
In The Concrete Jungle
Holding My Feelings In
Sex doll
The Night That Changed My Life
Raped Husband
לפני 14 שנים
Breaking the Silence

